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Pirate Bay Appeal

Last Updated on Monday, 20 September 2010 04:25Written by DarkKnightH20Saturday, 5 September 2009 04:35

More information has been revealed to the public about the Pirate Bay’s appeal date. For those unaware of what happened, the Pirate Bay was a large BitTorrent tracker website that was used all over the world. The legality of this was a bit hazy and the result of their trial is disclosed below, as well as information on their appeal date–

Millions of BitTorrent users all around the world followed the Pirate Bay trial with great interest this February. Many had hoped that the Court would decide that operating a BitTorrent tracker is no offense. However, on April 17th all four defendants were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of $905,000 to cover the entertainment industry’s damages.

For a while it looked like there could even be a retrial instead of an appeal, since judge Tomas Norström was involved with pro-copyright lobby groups and never declared these activities before he took on the case. The Appeal Court investigated the bias issue and ruled that the judge’s ties to these groups did not influence his judgment.

Instead of a retrial there will be an appeal, and the Court announced this week that it has two weeks set aside for the case starting November 9. The defense team is not happy with the dates, and Peter Sunde – one of the defendants – told TorrentFreak that the defense team will try to get the appeal date postponed because several of the people involved have other obligations.

You can read the full article here. Only time will tell how things will turn out. Hopefully it’ll be a happy ending.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 4:35 PM and is filed under News.
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